Tag #156804 - Interview #78659 (Vera Szekeres-Varsa)

But it was only in 1955 that I really began to wake up. It wasn’t just me, there were smarter people than me, like Konrád. He believed it too, he took it seriously. Even though he was expelled from university. We had gone through such thorough brainwashing that we accepted it. Then in 1956 came Khrushchev's speech,88 from which we could finally learn a few things. By then we had become ardent supporters of Imre Nagy.